Bottle-stopper



(No Model.)

f H. E. SPAULDING.

` BOTTLE STPPBR.

No. 283,432. Patented Aug.. 2l', A1883..

UNITED STATES PATENT Ormel-1a HENRY E. SPAULDNG, OF lWORCESTER, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO HORATIO A. SPAULDING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,432, dated vaugust 21, 1883.

Appllca-tion filed December 1S, 183:2.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY E. SPAULDING, of iiorcester, in the county of Vorcest'er and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottle- Stoppers, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled inthe art-or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is an isometrica-l perspective view 'representing a bottle provided with my improved stopper; Fig. 2, a sectional view, showing the form ofthe wire; and Fig: 8, a top plan view.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different iigures o the drawins. 4

liy invention relates to that class oi' bottlestoppers which are provided with means for securing them in position in 'the bottle or when in use; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more hilly set forth and claimed, by which a simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this characterl is produced than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following` eX- planation, its extreme simplicity rendering an elaborate descriptionV unnecessary.

In the drawings, A. represents the bottle, B the stopper proper, and G the binder or fastelllllg XVIIe.

` The neck of the bottle is provided with two correspon ding laterally-pro]l ecting lips or camshaped flanges, D D', which are flat on their upper sides, as seen at d, but inclined on their lower sides, as seen at a. These flanges are not connected, a space or vertical slot, m, bcing left between the heel or thick portion of the flange D and thetoe or thin portion of the flange' D, alike slot being also left between the toe of the ange D and heel of the flange' D on the opposite side of the bottle.

The stopper B is preferably composed of (No model.)

rubber, its binding-wire C being formed as best 5o seen in Fig. 2, or having a U-shaped body, f, wi th two downwardly-proj ecting curved arms, g g, the free ends of which pass under and in terlock with the ilanges D D when the stopper is in the bottle. The stopper is provided on either side with a slot, a", for receiving the sides e oi the body f, the slots being so formed that the sides will be iiush or'nearly flush with the sides of the stopper when the wire. is i11- serted in the same. The lower part of thebody 6o f is nearly straight, and rests in a hole extending horizontally through the stopper from thc lower end of one of the slots a" tothe lower end of the other, as shown in Fig. 2. One of the arms g is provided at its outer end with an 6 5 eye, Z, and wire i, which is attached to a wire, b, disposed around the neck ofthe bottle below the boss r, to connect the stopper permanently with the Abottle and prevent its loss; but the wires 'i I), boss r, and eye Z may be disi penscd with, if desired.

rllhe binding-wire C maybe molded into the stopper or inserted after the stopper is made, as preferred, as the stopper, being elastic, will readily yield sufiiciently to permit the insertion of the binder after it is molded.

In the use of my improvement, the stopper is inserted in the'neck of the bottlein such a position as to bring the arms g over the openings m. It is then pressed down and turned, the curved louter or lower ends of the arms passing under the cam-iianges D D' and binding or securely fastening the stopper, in a manner which will be readily obvious without a more explicit description. A small notch or depression, k, is formed in the under side of each ofthe anges D D, into which the ends of the arms g rise, thereby locking the stopper or preventing it from being accidentally turned to permit the arms to escape through the openings or slots in. and the stopper detached lfrom its seat in the neck of the bott-le.

It will be understood that the binder C, being composed of wire, will spring or yield sufciently to permit the ends of the arms to pass under the flanges D D and rise into the notches, the stopper iB also yielding, and at the saine time being forced into the neck of the bottle.

langes D D', in combination with the stopper B, provided With the Wire binder C, substantially as speeied. Y

4. The hottie A, provided with the flanges z5 D D and notch k, in combination with the stopper B, provided with the Wire hinder C,

. substantially as set forth.

HENRY E. SPAULDING.' Witnesses:

THOMAS R. Fos'rnn, AUSTIN 1)..CRIs'rY. 

